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M A G A Z I N E
Vol.1.Issue.1
R E F U S E
This photo is symbolic of
the way that my brain was
feeling for quite some time.
The sense of falling or
sinking. When I’m feeling
lost or frustrated I like to
create things to help me
express the way that I feel
and this image came from
those emotions, feeling like I
was struggling and that after
a while you just end up
sinking to the bottom. Even
though you hit the bottom,
there is always the chance to
swim back to the top.
“
”
t h e p r e m i e r i s s u e
T E R R I B U R N S, E D I T O R
c o n t r i b u t o r s / t a b l e o f c o n t e n t s
Joel Robison
Cathline Dickens
Ashlee Elle
Brooke Shaden
R E F U S E
Previous Page: About the cover, by Joel Robison
Some are more scared of their
pasts than of their futures. But
one day, there will be no
horizon to comfort writers and
poets, nor to remind us all of
the beauty of the world. To
prepare ourselves, we must use
our minds, pencils, and paint
brushes, and of course we must
use our cameras.
-Terri C. Burns, Editor
Dearest Reader,
Joel Robison
This photograph is entitled “Catch It If You Can,” part of Joel’s phantasmagoric Harry Potter series.
Artist/Photographer Joel Robison shot our cover
photograph.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joel_r
1. Three sentences about photography.
-Photography is never stagnant, it grows and changes every day.
-Photography is something that provides me with an artistic way to
express myself.
-Seeing the world through a camera lens has changed the way I see
the world.
2. What do you fear?
Aside from birds? I fear not knowing what I want to do with my
life. I tend to stay away from making long-term plans and while I
think it helps me live in the moment, it also fuels the fear that I
don’t know where I’m headed.
3. Turn to your left. Describe what you see.
I see my messy desk that has some prints that I recently received in
the mail from some of my favorite artists; it has small photo props
as well as a few too many empty coffee cups. I have some art
hanging on the wall as well as a stack of mail that I keep forgetting
to send anyway!
4. What inspires you?
The world around me in every way. I am inspired by nature and
how nature can be manipulated. I’m inspired by popular culture
and how I can interpret it’s messages into a different idea. I’m
inspired by my own thoughts, by the conversations I have, and by
the dreams that fill my brain. I tend to be inspired by simple
words of concepts and then I try to build upon them and put my
own spin on them.
Inspiration
from…
c o l o r
.
”
There's a big tree
with about 30
birds on it just
singing their lives
away while the
branches are
swaying from the
wind…
“
Photographer:
Cathline Dickens
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/londonscene
1. Three sentences about photography.
I'd like to say photography is a never ending way to express your true
feelings and dreams in a thousandth of a second. Photography is a soul
captivating, heart wrenching, and thought-filled journey. No photographer
is the same, and that's what makes photography so beautiful; every time you
see a photograph it's always done a little bit different.
2. What do you fear?
What do I fear? Needles or slimy bugs, yuck. Photography-wise? I think I
just fear that my photographs won't be good enough for my fans. However I
think every photographer fears that.
3. Turn to your left. Describe what you see.
I'm looking out a window. There's a big tree with about 30 birds on it just
singing their lives away while the branches are swaying from the wind, and
there are mundane townhouses on the other side of the road.
4. What inspires you?
I am hugely inspired by dream-like states of existence and fantasy based
movies or books. I think my biggest inspirations have to be books like
Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and the Brothers
Grimm fairy tales. The Grimm Brothers grotesque view really intrigues
me.
Photography is a soul captivating, heart
wrenching, and thought-filled journey.
“ ”
I am inspired by dark art that is so beautiful that you
forget it was dark in the first place. “ ”
Photographer:
Brooke Shaden
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/
1. Three sentences about photography.
They say that the eyes are a window to the soul, but a photograph is a
window to a whole new world. Photographers can make those worlds
into anything imaginable, and that is what I try to do with my
photography. I create the worlds I wish we lived in where secrets are out
in the open and where the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
2. What do you fear?
On the most basic level, I fear whales. It is sad, but true. I have a
horrible fear of whales more so than any other thing, even sharks! My
biggest regret would be to lose sight of my imagination, so in turn my
biggest fear is losing my imagination.
3. Turn to your left. Describe what you see.
I see a ceramic volcano that my husband made in high school. A print of
mine, "My Little Bluejay", hanging on my wall. A book: Invisible
Cities by Italo Calvino. Two jars of tea, both decaffeinated, one herbal
and one black; a cat scratching post and a keyboard as well.
4. What inspires you?
I am inspired by the fleeting, in-between moments of darkness and
beauty. I am inspired by the the act of seeing something differently than
I had previously. I am inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite painters as well as
brush strokes in paintings. I am inspired by dark art that is so beautiful
that you forget it was dark in the first place.
Photographer:
Ashlee Elle
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21816878@N08
1. Three sentences about photography.
Photography is a visual interpretation of my honest emotions.
Photography has become a part of my life and I truly cannot
imagine existing without it.
Photography, it breathes right on through me.
2. What do you fear?
I honestly fear never accomplishing my aspirations, my dreams,
the beautiful things that I would love to achieve for the rest of
my life. I would never want to look back upon my life and say,
"I wish I had done that.." that wholeheartedly frightens me.
3. Turn to your left. Describe what you see.
I perceive a pile of unread books, hardback, paperback, all
discoveries awaiting my sight and mind.
4. What inspires you?
To be honest, everything inspires me though that sounds pretty
wide open. Moreover, the dreams I hold, the dreams I have,
lovely strangers, lively music, moving words.. I can look around
me and become entirely inspired by everything in its true
existence.
”
“ I can look around me and become entirely
inspired by everything in its true existence.
R E F U S E
“They say that the eyes are a
window to the soul, but a
photograph is a window to a
whole new world.”
-Brooke Shaden, Contributing
photographer